The Sun. — London, England, 1864-12-05 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. NEW RAILWAY PROJECTS. - About 400 notices of intended applications to Par liament in the ensuing session have been given for railway, canal, and dock bills, all connected with railways. Plans and sections have been deposited at the Board of Trade for 354 projected new rail ways and works, being 46 more than those depo• sited last year, and it is believed the largest number since the year 1846. In the last session of Parlia ment it was found difficult to get through the work, and it appeared that several bills had been delayed very late in the session for want of chairmen of COM. mittees to consider and report on their merits. The railway business for next session promises to be much heavier than last session ; at least the bills are more numerous, and probably not so easily shelved as the 30 schemes for the metropolitan rail ways were last session. Notices for 27 bills have been given for lines and junction lines for the metropolis and the suburbs, but none of them equal in magnitude to any of those of last session. The Metropolitan District Company (part of the inner circle) merely propose to divide their authorised double junction line with the West London Railway, from Kensington to Fulham, and to purchase land, houses, and property for the purpose. The East London (Thames Tunnel line) have come forward with a modified scheme for constructing a railway from the Great Eastern at Westeplace, Bethnalegreen, passing through the Thames Tunnel to the London and Brighton Rail way at Deptford, with a branch to the South Eastern Railway, and also to the Great Eastern at Liverpool-street to Whitechapel, and to the London and Blackwell Railway at Mile end, Old Town. The Eastern Metropolitan propose to construct a railway from Aldgate to Mile-end ; the Metropolie tan and St. John'sswood Railway Company ask for power to extend their line to lYillow.road, Hamp stead ; the Waterloo and Whitehall Company propose to make a railway from Great Scotland. yard, passing under the Thames to the Waterloo station of the London and South Western Railway Company. The London, Chatham, and Dover are very moderate this time; they propose to make a junction line from Lambeth to the London and Brighton Railway at the west end of Denmark. hill tunnel, a junction railway from their Peckham line at Camberwell to the London and Brighton Railway at Hanover-parkeroad, to oblige the Crys tal Palace and South London Company to ethane don the construction of the portion of their line from Camberwell to Denmark-hill, to make a junction line at Beckenham, and to abandon the whole of their Bickley and other authorised junc tions. They also propose to enable the London and SoutheWestern Company to work over and use with their engines and carriages the railways, sidings, and stations of the London, Chatham, and Dover Company in Surrey, Middlesex, and London, on such terms as may be agreed upon: The Tot tenham and Hampstead Junction Company propose to make railways from Gordon-house-lane to the Metropolitan Extension of the Great Eastern Cora. pany at Tottenham ; from Tattert-down-lane to the Alexandra-park, near the southern end of the main building. The North London Company propose to make a railway from Islington to near the toll-gate, Highgate-archway, and thence to the Alexandra park Extension lines of the Edgware, Highgate, and London Railway at Hornsey. A company pro. poses a line from the Edgware, Highgate, and London Rail way at Hornsey to the North London Railway at Islington. Tho Edgware, Highgate, and London Company propose to make junctions with the Tottenham and Hampstead Railway from Crouch-hill to the Holloway-road, and also at Hornsey. A company proposes to make a railway from Wood-green to Winchmoreehill and Enfield; and so do the Great Northern Railway Com pany, extending it from Enfield to Hertford. A company has given notice of a line from the London and North-Western, near Willes den, to Harrow and Rickmansworth. New com panies propose to make railways from Acton to Brantford, from Acton to Twickenham, from Balham to Brixton and Clapham, from King's-cross to Is , lington and Limehouse, and from Chalk-farm station to Fiuchley. Hendon, Totteridgo, and Barnet. The London and Blackwell Company intend to extend their line to Millwall. The London and Brighton Company propose junction linen at Rotherhithe. The Metropolitan and South London Company pro pose a line from Little Moorfields, passing through the Thames Tunnel to Rotherhithe, and branches to the Great Eastern It dlway at Bethnal-green and Tap-street ; and branches at Rotherhithe to the North lipnt, South Eastern, and London and Brighton Railways. Two high level branch rail ways to the Crystal Palace are proposed from the existing Crystal Palace line. A company proposes to make railways from the Great Western and Brentford Railway at leleworth to the Wimbledon and Croydon at Merton and Wimbledon, on the mixed guage. These projects appear to be suffie ciently numerous at least for one Session, within a circle of about 10 miles of the General Post-office. The most important projects in the list of notices for new railways are the Lancashire and Yorkshire and Great Eastern Junction ; the Leeds, North Yorkshire and Durham; the London, Bucks, and East Gloucestershire; and the South Wales and Great Western Direct. The Lancashire and York shire and Great Eastern Junction is promoted by those two companies jointly for the construction of a railway from the Great Eastern Railway at Long Stanton to the Askerne branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Askerne, with branches to Somersham, Ramsey, Standground, Bourn, Siete ford, Blyton, Kirksandall, Thorpe, and Burgwallis. This is nearly identical with the Great Eastern Northern Junction scheme of last Session, which was rejected by committees of both Houses as being a competing line to the loop line and branches of the Great Northern Railway ; but at the same time they inserted facility clauses in the Great Northern Bill for the conveyance of coals and other traffic to and from the Great Eastern Rail way. Those facilities not being considered suffie cient by the Great Eastern Company for the de velopment of the northern traffic between Lancashire and the Eastern Counties district, the project has been revived, and will no doubt be again opposed by the Great Northern Company. The Leeds, North Yorkshire, and Durham is promoted by an "inde pendent company " for constructing a railway from Leeds to Hartlepool, with branches to Scarborough, Ferndale, Wortley, Armley, and other places, and junctions with the North Eastern, Stockton and Darlington, and other railw aye in the northeastern district. This scheme will be strenuously opposed by the North Eastern Company—but it is supposed that running powers over the existing railways similar to those granted for 50 years to the Great Northern Company over the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway would obviate the neces sity of making those two competing railways, at a cost of £3,000,000 or £4,000,000. The London, Bucks, and East Gloucestershire is promoted by an " independent company" to make railways from the East Gloucestershire railway at Ysrnton, to Risborough, Ellesborough, Rickmansworth, Wee ford, Stanmore,and Willesden to the Midland Rail way at Henden, with branches to Wolvercot, Great Kimble, Watford, and other places. The project ap pears to be intended as a competing line from the Midland Railway to Oxford, Cheltenham, Glocester and Bristol. The South Wales and Great Western direct is promoted by an " independent company" to make a railway from the South Wales Railway near Chepstow across the Severn by means of a bridge to the Great. Western Railway at Wootton Bassett. The Birkenhead and Liverpool is api eject for making a railway from the Birkenhead line at Bebbington, b means of a tunnel under the Mersey i nto Toxteth l perk, Liverpool, and thence to the Liverpool central station. The South Wales Junction i s a proje c t f or constructing a railway from the Bristol and South Wales tJaion Railway, by means of a tunnel through rock under the river Severn, to the South Wales Railway near Portakewet. A similar tunnel project for next session is for a railway from the Bleekwall end North London Railways at Limehouse, passing under the Thames to Blackwell Point and the Greene with-marshes to the North Kent Railway at Cheri ton. The other important engineering works to be submitted next session are the high level railway *bridges over the Firth of Forth and the Firth of 'ray. The North British and Edinburgh and Glas gow companies propose to construct a railway from the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway at a Feint 15 miles from Edinburgh, thence across the Firth of Forth by means of a high-level bridge about two miles in length, to the North British line at Charles. ton. The Tay Bridge and Dundee Union project is for making a railway from the North British Rail• way at Ferry.port-on.Craig, passing over the Firth of Tay on a high-level bridge, to the town of Dun dee, with branches to the Scottish Central Railway and to the harbour of Dundee. The construction of those railway bridges would greatly facilitate the traffic from the north to the South of Scotland, and by whieh these two great ferries would be avoided. Those schemes are looked upon with great favour in Scotland, and are therefore likely to be sanctioned. The proposed leases, purchases, and amalgamations are rather numerous. The Great Eastern propose to lease the London and Blackwell Railway, to amalgamate the Bishop's Stortford, Dunmow, and Braintree and the Ramsay Railways with their undertaking. The Great Northern propose to amalgamate with the West Yorkshire and the Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax Junction ; and in conjunce tion with the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln shire Company, to vest the Stockport and Woodley Junction, the Stockport, Timperley, and Altrincham Junction, the Cheshire Midland, and the West Cheshire railways in their undertakings. The Lon. don and North Western propose to give the Midland a joint interest in the lease, use, and working of the Lancaster and Carlisle, the Kendal and Windermere, and the Lancaster and Preston railways, and to amalgamate with the Bedford and Cambridge and South Staffordshire. The Caledonian propose to amalgamate with the Scottish Central, the General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour, the Dumfries and Lockerby, the Dumfries, Lochmaben, and Lockerby. The Scottish Central propose to amalgamate the Crieff Junction and the Dumblane, Doane, and Callender Railways with their undertaking, The Edinburgh and Glasgow propose to amalgamate the Monkland Railway with their undertaking. The North British intend to apply for power to amalga mate with the Edinburgh and Glasgow, and also to amalgamate with the St. Andrew's, the Devon Valley, and the Esk Valley Railway Companies. The Glasgow and South Western intend. to amalga mate the Maybole and Girvan,the Ayr and Maybole, the Castle Douglas, the Bridge of Weir, and the Kirkcudbright Railways with their undertaking. The Scottish North Eastern propose to amalgamate the Carmyllie line with their railways. It is in tended to amalgamate the West Hartlepool and Cleveland Railways with the North Eastern. The North Eastern propose to amalgamate the Cleveland Railway with their undertaking, The Inverness and Perth Junction have agreed to amalgamate with the Aberdeen and Inverness Junction Railway Com pany. The Bristol and Exeter intend to lease the Devon and Somerset Railway. The Vale of Neath intend to ask for power to amalgamate with the Great Western Railway. The 'feign Valley pro pose to lease their undertaking to the South Devon Company. The Maryport and Carlisle propose to amalgamate the Whitehaven Junction, the Cocker. mouth and Workington, the Whitehaven and Furness Junction, the Whitehaven, Cleator, and Egremont, and the Solway Junction Railways with their undertaking. The Whitehaven Junction and the Cockermouth and Workington have agreed to amalgamate. Tho Metropolitan intend, in conjunc tion with the Great Western, to lease the Hammer smith and City Railway. 'The Great Western and London and North Western intend jointly to pur chase the Shrewsbury and Welshpool Railway. The Great Western propose to amalgamate the Bridport, the Great Western and Brentford, and - Wycombe Railways with their undertaking. The Cambrian intend to amalgamate with the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast. The Brecon and Merthyr Tydvil Junction intend to amalgamate with the Hereford, Hay, and Brecon Railway. The Monmouthshire in tend to purchase the Brecon and Abergavenny Canal, and the Neath and Brecon Railway Company have given notice to purchase the Swansea Canal. The Dublin and Belfast Junction and the Dublin and Drogheda Railway Company are proposed to be amalgamated, The London and North:Western, the Great 'Western, the Midland, the Lancashire and Yorkshire, the North Eastern, the Great Northern, the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, the London and South Western, the London and Brighton, the South Eastern, the Caledonian, the North British, the Glasgow and South Western, the Great E istern, and other large companies have given notices of intended application to Parliament in the ensuing session for additional powers to con• struct various short branch, junction, and spur lines ; also to purchase lands, houses, and property for the purpose of enlarging sidings and stations, with a view to afford ample accommodation for the increasing traffic of the country, and to facilitate the interchange and conveyance of traffic. Nearly all the notices specify an intention of asking for powers to make traffic and other arrangements with neighbouring companies. Many of them con tain provisions for mutual running powers, and the accommodation of trains at the various stations and sidings; while the projects promoted by inde pendent companies invariably authorise established companies in the district to subscribe towards the new undertakings, and to raise additional capital for the purpose. PORTPATItICK. A special general meeting of this company was held at Stranraer on Friday, for the purpose of con sidering an agreement entered into with the Cale donian Railway Company for the working of the line ; the Earl of Stair presided, The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the agreement, explained that the Caledonian Company undertook to work the line for 38 per cent. of the gross receipts, the work percentage was to diminish with the increase of the traffic, 33 per cent, being the minimum. The Caledonian Company had also agreed to take over the plant, &c., on terms favour able to the Portpatrick Company, and to work the line, not merely as a local, but as a through line, in connection with the Irish traffic by the short sea passage. The arrangement was a liberal one, and would result in rendering available to the Portpat rick Company the sum of £30,000 for the reduction of their debenture debt, while the charge for work ing was such that, joined to a moderate revenue, he believed that at no distant date they would be able to declare a dividend on the capital of the com pany. Sir W. Dux BAR seconded the motion, an 3 it was carried unanimously. EAST NORFOLK. Lord Suffield has been elected chairman of this company. Mr S. Goodson, of the Great Eastern, has been appointed deputy chairman. A Cußlotis IBox or Mss.—Mr. Coventry Pat more has presented to the MS. Department of the British Museum a Collection of MS. Plays, or part of plays, about 160 in number, which formerly constituted the theatrical chest of Drury-lane Theatre while under the ma nagement of R. Brinsley Sheridan. This chest was depo. sited by Sheridan, soon after the fire in 1809, with the late Mr John Marshall, of Soho-square, as security for a loan of £BOO. The loan was never repaid, and Mr Marshall even tually parted with the collection to Mr P. G. Patmore, the father of the present donor. The collection contains auto graphs or copies of several well-known pieces by O'Keefe, Cobb, Mrs Inchbald, ice. But by far the greater number and the most interesting of the pieces are unpublished, and some have never even been played. Among the autographs is a piece called" Ixion," the first dramatic attempt of She ridan, in conjunction with his school-fellow llalhead. Moore's " Lite of Sheridan" contains some quotations from this piece. Moore, who speaks of it under the title of " Jupiter," says that it was a farce, or play, in three acts, " written:in imitation of the burlelta of Midas." There are several pieces in the handwriting of R. B. Sheridan, and of his son Tom Sheridan. There is likewise an opera in the handwriting of Charles Lamb, and there is another containing 27 songs, the author of which is aut Moore aut lhabolus. The collection, we understand, hag never been submitted to any critic having extensive acquaintance with more Interesting see msprobable han dwritings and d ramatic history of the time; and it particul ars th' ? t an close examination migh t witt i t thandiscover are spparent on the surf ac(;. Many ' rections in th e handwriting olsirreces contaihandwritingidan. Two or three are pantomimes_ and, in addition, to th there are s everal private letters , ) rece. dramatic pieces, ipts, &c., from the actors and drateatists of the time, addressed to R. B. Sheridan,—,ettAencsron, Lord Stanley, M.P,. on Middle-Class Education, On Friday evening a meeting was held in the Mechanics Institution, Manchester, Mr 0. Heywood in the chair, for the distribution to the pupils in the institution school and classes of the prizes and certificates won by them in the last examinations. The room was crowded. The chairman in troduced Lord Stanley, who distributed the prizes and cer tificates to the successful students. Lord STA.NLEY, who was received with applause, said—l believe we have now concluded the formal duty for which I came to this room, that of distributing the prizes gained at the recent examinations by the pupils of this institute. It is a duty which I always undertake with pleasure, and never more than here; for often before, at various times, and on various occasions,:it has been my fortune to appear before a Manchester audience, and as there is no place where I have received a warmer welcome, so there is none where I value it more highly. (Cheers.) I am able to congratulate you—l speak to the members and friends of this institute—on a success far greater than undertakings of this kind have generally had to show. Established during 40 years, you have witnessed the rise, and I fear also the failure, of the great majority of similar institutions in England ; while you, through all political and industrial vicissitudes (and how.many those have been no one here present needs to be reminded) have enjoyed a steady and a tolerably uniform success. You have an income exceeding £3,000 a year, of which by far the greater part is derived from the sub scriptions of members, subscriptions given in return for value received. You have a debt, trifling indeed when compared with your income, and which can hardly be called an encumbrance, but still a debt of which there is every hope you will soon be rid. The disasters of the last few years have in no material degree, as I am informed, affected your resources, though in some departments they have slightly diminished the attendance. You have provided for yourselves a building admirable alike for his archi tecture, and for its practical convenience. You supply teaching for boys and young men, for girls and grown-up women. You keep on your lists, as your President just now told you, the names; of 1,300 members and upwards, You number in your various classes, as well as from the returns I can make out, considerably over a thousand students, though it may be possible in the various classes some are counted twice over ; and in the various compe titions last year—the Society of Arts examination, the Oxford middle-class examination, and that of the Science and Art Department of Government you have held a position which is not unworthy of this county, and of this city. (Applause.) The results I may briefly state as follows :—ln the Society of Arts examination, 64 certifi cates, one £5 prize, and three of smaller value, In the Oxford middle-class examination, three senior candidates passed, one failing. In the examinations of the Science and art department, GO Queen's prizes, four bronze medals, and many honourable mentions. I take those figures from the last return. I think your secretary may well have given way to some feeling of natural pride, when he wrote the passage which appears in your report of this autumn, to the effect that a similar success has not been achieved by any other institute in the kingdom. (Applause.) And here it scorns as if I might stop, and congratulate you upon a success which has been so prominent and so com plete, relieving you at once of all further trouble, But you will expect some remarks from me upon a more general subject, and some such I shall offer, though feeling, as I always do on such occasions, the utter impossibility of saying anything in connection with these matters which has not been said and better said thousands of times before. We are here to support a mechanics' institution, or what is commonly called such, though really it admits, and ought to admit, many other persons besides those who can pro perly be called mechanics. There can be no question, after the results stated, that the work which it professes to do is done thoroughly. But there remains behind the further inquiry, What is that work, and is it worth doing? I suppose nobody will care to deny that there is, in parts of this country, some considerable prejudice against bodies of this kind. Their foundation was an experiment, dating from some 40 years back, when any educational work not wholly in clerical hands was looked upon with a good deal of jealousy. They were watched, therefore, by a powerful class and party, with no very friendly feeling. They had political and sectarian animosities to bear up against; but that would ra , ,t have hurt them. It might even in the long run have helped them, since opposition always stirs up zeal, if they had been founded on a sound and judicious basis. Unluckily, that did not always hap pen, The founders of them, good and honest men, con siderably over-sated their means and under-rated their difficulties. They started from a fallacy, obvious enough when put in words, but which they overlooked in practice. They assumed, or seemed to assume, that because a certain number of persons, under every disadvantage, had attained to high mental culture, therefore, all men, under similar cir cumstances, might do the same thing. They attached, I think, too much importance to a vague and superficial know ledge of many things; they talked too much of the benfits of knowledge in the abstract ; and they thought too little of the practical application of it to the business of life. In short, they had no experience of the matter with which they had to deal, which w as not their fault ; and they were more sanguine than cautious, which is a temperament natural to those who act as pioneers in a new undertaking. It is just to them to add that they had obstacles to contend against which now no longer exist. The people were then in a very different state from the present. Party ran higher; the bitterness of class feeling (now, 1 hope, almost extinct) was strong. (Applause.) There was then no cheap press of a respectable kind ; there were few primary schools; not one third of the people could read and write that can read and write now; and the great industrial towns, where alone these institutions have thriven as in a congenial soil, were less populous and less prosperous. But whatever the cause, the result was partial failure—failure, that is, as to the means employed ; for, as to the end set before thsm, that end has been to a great degree attained, though in other ways and by other machinery. Well, they have passed away, and a part of their work remains. Some of those institutions have perished ; some have become mere club rooms and news-rooms for the middle class chiefly; some have got into the hands of partisans, and are lcoked to as part of the machinery of party organisation. Those which, like yours, have survived, have altered their character. They have become less ambitious and more practical. They don't regard themselves, I should say, rather their promo ters don't regard them, as destined to achieve a great social revolution. They don't in the least aspire . to regenerate society, whatever that pretentious phrase may mean. They have learned to be distrustful of boasting programmes and sounding phrases, They find before them a real work to be done, a real want to be supplied—and to that work and to that want they address themselves manfully. The work is, to continue for s uc h p ersons as d esire it, and to extend, the very limited and imperfect teaching which alone a school for the industrial class, or indeed for any class, can pretend to give. That is their whole aim and scope —and to me it seems one of the most reasonable and practical description. (Applause.) Take the facts of the case as we all know them to be. A boy is taught in his school, well or badly, as the case may be, till he is 12 years old. If his parents are poor he does not step much longer—and for myself I value so highly the advantages for an early introduction to the practical duties of life, that I don't grudge that early departure. (Hear, hear.) But if he leaves at that age he can have got very little beyond the mere ground-work of knowledge, the power of reading, writing, and cyphering ; and for my part I wish schoolmasters would recognise that fact pore clearly than they do. I don't think they quite understand of how very little use it is stuffing children's memories with facts, or with what are supposed to be facts, to which no definite idea is attached. (Applause.) I have heard boys rattle over names of kings and countries when I was quite sure not one in 50 of them had any defi nite notion of what was meant by a king, or what the capita 1 of a country was. (Laughter.) I have always said, and always shall say, that if a child learns at school to read easily, and with pleasure to itself, to write well, and by that I mean distinctly, end to do common sums, the schoolmaster has done his share, and other agencies will complete wh a t he has begun. If teaching is, as I believe, better on the whole, in the higher than in'the lower classes, it is chiefly on this account ; not that more is taught at an early age but less; that the time is taken that the wall is not run up in haste, that the bricks are set on carefully, and the mortar allowed time to dry, and so the structure, whether high or low, is likely to stand. (Applause.) That leads me to an°. ther remark. People aro beginning to find out what, if they would use their own observation more, and not follow one another like sheep, they would have found out long ago, that it is doing positive harm to a young child, mental and bodily harm, to keep it learning, or pretending to learn, the greater part of the day. Nature says to a child " Run about;" the schoolmaster says, " Sit still"--(laughter)-- and as the schoolmaster can punish on the spot, and nature can only punish long afterwards, he is obeyed, and health and brain suffer. (Applause.) I have nothing to say against hard work—train work or hand work; I believe it to be healthy, and that at a riper age those whom it in jures are infinitely few compared with those whom it benefits. But you must let nature have her way. Three or four hours of attention are quite enough in a day for any child—(hear, hear)—and if you accept that principle it fol lows necessarily that the sohool must leave much undone, and that some other machinery of teaching is required, such as that provided hero. Not that I expect all young men, or perhaps most of them, will care to use these means. I know a great many of them won't, and that is a result which I contemplate with considerable philosophy. (Laugh ter.) It is:the idlest folly to try to turn out men and women as you turn out manufactured articles, all done by one pat tern, (Laughter and applause.) It takes some of all sorts to make up society. Ilow often, in the upper ranks of life, one hears it said, " So-and-so is a fine lad ; he'll make a capital soldier, a sailor, or a colonist, but he has no turn for books. Do not mistake me. I think that the studious type of character is, on the whole, both the happiest and the highest. Men of that turn have pleasures and resources which others have not, and which never wholly fail. That is no small matter, because sheer weariness, dullness, the monotony of a life which is safe but not eventful, lead to half the mischief which men do to themselves and their families by falling into bad ways. All I say is (because we gain nothing by exagg: ration) that those who take that line, those who care really for reading, and for self-improvement, will never, in any class, be more than a fraction, of the FHE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1864. whole. But then they are a very important fraction, im portant in the influence which they exercise, if not in their numbers. What wo have to do is to see that mon of that type, in the less wealthy class, have a fair chance of develop ing such faculties as they may possess. Our business is to find the tools, let those who can and will use them ; and that there will be, that there aro many such Ido not doubt. Tho people of Manchester know what they are about too well to go on year after year spending money on a thing which gives them no practical return. It is often said, " Look at the very ablest and cleverest of your self-raised men, mon that have had little or no instruction ; very often they know next to nothing outside their own particular business." That may be true enough, Mechanical genius, or a turn for commercial enterprise, like any other gift, is born in a man. That is to say, we do not know how or whence it comes; but we do know this, that those who have the most of it, those who owed their success entirely to themselves, aro the very men who are keenest in the desire that those who came after them should have better opportunities than they had. (Hear, hear.) Look at George Stephenson No man probably better understood the ideas or the wants of the class from which he sprung; and no man more warmly interested himself in instructions of this kind, as the people of the northern districts well know. His son, Robert Stephenson, was a man of the same stamp ; and in that, as in other matters, he_ followed in his father's footsteps, and I think I am not wrong in saying, unless my memory fails me, that by his will he largely and liberally endowed an institution of this kind in his native town.—(Applause.) On that point I should like to call some other eminent witnesses to the truth of what I am saying. Such witnesses would not be wanting, for the name of your late respected president, the name of Fairbairn— (applause) —will, I believe, be remembered along with that of the two Stephensons. But he is happily present, and I shall allow him to speak for himself. (Applause.) I think that support which such men give to the work we have in hand is a far stronger argument in its favour than if it were left to the interested assistance of parties or sects, to the patronage of politicians canvassing for popularity, or even to the not illiberal ostentation of millionaires desiring credit for the use they make of their wealth. There is one point in con nection with this undertaking which it is always well to no tice, I mean your independence of all State aid and of all State control. (Applause.) I dwell on that because I fear that in other besides educational matters there is some de crease in that wholesome jealousy with which the middle classes of England have always been in the hab t of looking on any attempt of the executive to extend its functions. I say nothing against the help given to primary instruction, or, in plain English, to boys' and girls' schools, I believe that is necessary. The last generation had, and the pre sent generation still has, to make up long arrears created by centuries of neglect. In such a case, private moans would be utterly inadequate ; and seeing a great work before it which must be done, and seeing only one means of doing it, the community had practically no option, But I hold that where the necessity ends, there the interference should end also. No doubt it is a pleasant thing for promoters of useful schemes to be able to draw on the Treasury; but if that system is carried far, the country loses in many ways. There is first the loss of self•reliance. It is like learn ing to swim with corks, very easy and very pleasant, but you never make a good swimmer in that way. (Laughter.) There is another evil. Whore you have official interference, there is naturally an attempt on the part of those who exercise it to establish uniformity, to have one plan and ene pattern for everybody, and that, I believe, in dealing with men and women, is about the biggest mistake that can be made. There is the political risk also, on which, speaking here, I shall touch very lightly, that you give to the accidental and temporary possessors of political power an authority over local and personal matters to which they have no claim, and which they are better for not having. Lastly, you don't want suei help, or you ought not to want it. Freedom, security, industry, will always create large fortunes. Public opinion demands of the owners of wealth that they shall use it liberally for the general good; and many a man (most men), it I may trust my own experience, would rather give £5O freely, with that reward which they naturally expect from the gratitude of their fellow-citizens, than have £5 screwed out o: them by taxes. (Applause.) I say, therefore, in that respect remain as you are. I don't object to those Government prizes, insignificant as they are in pecuniary value, though believe if they were done away you would have as much er more contributed by private agency. But I should be sorry to see a system of grants and subsidies applied to adult education, however plausibly such a system might be defendel, Even as regards optional in spection, which some peoile propose (though I don't say there is much harm, in it), what can it do fur you more than is done already by these various cxaminatious—those of the society of Arts, ant those set on foot by the uni versities, both new undertakings, and neither costing a shilling to the public ? State help has done nothing fur English manufactures--English farmers are not trained in Government schools—nor have our great engineers come out of Government workshops. (Hoar, hoar, and laugh ter.) Yet our manufactures travel to every corner of the earth, our engineers are employed in every country, and our farming, imperfect though it may be, is probably the highest in Europa. (Hear, hear.) Coming back 'to educational matters, though I respect and admire, as everyone does, the great endowed schools and universities for the wealthier classes, thcugh I should be exceedingly sorry if any harm befell theta, yet I suspect that if none of those venerable institutions existed English gentlemen would still contrive to provide for themselves nearly as good an education as 1 hey have now. (Applause.) Why ? Because they kn w the value of it, ant are ready to pay for it; and where the demand is, the eup?ly will follow. And when the same feeling becomes general among the working classes, especially among that highly-paid class of skilled mechanics and artisans who are really (comparing their wants with their earnings) as well off as any people in the world, the same result will follow. I say this, keep your independence, keep your self-reliance, and never fear but you will continue to do well. (Applause.) The work on ei hieh you are en gaged is only a part, it may be but a small part, of a great national movement. The school, the institute, the cheap newspaper, the cheap book, go together with the benefit society, the savings bank, the freehold cottage, the co-ope rative mill, and better still, the co . operative store. (Ap plause.) The' object of all these is one—to lighten the heavy and threefold burden of ignorance, poverty and labour. Failure there may be. Mistakes there occasionally will be. There will be long delay and temporary falling back. But that that end will in some, and that not an inconsiderable degree be attained, is not only the earnest hope but also the confident expectation of those to whose thoughts the welfare and greatness of England are most co ns t an tl y present. Th e hon. gentleman resumed his seat amid great applause. Mr. Justice Byles on Strikes. in - his charge to the Grand Jury at the Staffordshire winter assizes on Frida s y, Ur Justice Byles said a great many persons whose names wore i n th e ca l en d ar stoo d charged with offences against the Combinations Act. The law on combinations he conceived to be this com bine if you please, and as many as you please, persuade if you like; but you must not use intimidation or threats. That is to say, you must not intimidate either by word or acts. If you do, you break the la w . H o gathered from the depositions that the persons i ndicted had marched in mili tary array to the sound of military music. He very much doubted whether that was not in itself an offence against the law of the land, because it presupposes, if it does not actually include, drilling and training, against which there was a direct and explicit sintattUhtee.expTrehsesiloanweovfertyhoplearnsodnwians goccasi onally or per manen tly armed, theth a that themilitary profession, i nclu di was under the control of the Crown, and of nobody else. This was a principle which could not be infringed without the most obvious danger, as the grand jury themselves had seen. Not only had the prisoners marched in military array, but there was evidence that they had intimidated some of their fellow-workmen, and there had likewise been cases of actual violence.. His lordship recommended the grand jury to examine the cases (19 in all) separately, with a view to the selection, if possible, of the most serious. A similar course would be pursued when the cases came into the open court. The learned Judge then said—l am a stranger to both the masters and the men of this district, and I trust I am actuated by no other desire than the ad ministration of the law of the land, with justice. The hand of the law must fall heavily on those who aro disco vered to be active instigators in the matter. Those who are mere dupes will of course bo mere leniently dealt with. I cannot help saying that cases of this kind suggest all observation to me which I venture to make in the presence of those who have the means of making their voices heard, or the voices of those who represent them hoard in the great council of the nation. Is not the mode of adjusting disputes between men and masters by means of strikes very barbarous in a free country like this ? I say this because in a neighbouring country there aro courts regularly formed, consisting of masters and work men in small numbers, for the adjustment et their dis putes. They have found means of obtaining a satisfactory reference of those points on which they disagree. I can not help thinking that if some such courts were established here great good might result. Generally speaking, the re spective representatives of such bodies on both sides might agree ; but, where they did not, I think it would not be im possible to find a referee of practical knowledge who would command the attention and secure the respect of both sides. The arbitration should have the force of law. 1 believe there aro very few subjects more deserving of public atten tion than this, espe c i a ll y i n this county an d a t this time. A BUST CF THACKERAY (from tho hand of Baron Marochetti) is to be placed in Westminster Abbey between those of Addison and Macaulay. [ADVERTISEMENT ]'.Holloway's Oiritment.—Painless Oures.—Sores, wounds, ulcerations, and other disease s affecting the skin aro amenable by this cooling and healing unguent. It has called forth the loudest praises from per sons who had suffered for years from bad legs, abscesses, and chronic ulcers, after every hope of cure had long passed away. None but those who have experienced the soothing effect of this ointment can form an idea of the comfort it bestows by restraining inflammation and allaying pain. Whenever this ointment has been once used it has estab lished its own worth, and has again been eagerly sought for as the easiest and safest remedy for all ulcerous complaints. In neuralgia, rheumatism, and gout, the same application, properly used, gives wonderful relief. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE " EXAMINER . ' ON "TOM BROWN'S" 'IMAGI NARY AtrOINTMENT.—Of the asserted appoint■ anent of Mr Thomas Hughes as Reviser of Military Regulations at the War-olllce, with a handsome salary, in asking whether it could be true, we said that Mr Hughes was "known as more ready to sacrifice himself in unpaid work for the good of his countrymen than likely to accept, in a half sine• cure, the profits of a job at the expense of the coun try," The rumour has been disposed of by Mr Hughes himself, in the following letter to our re. epectcd contemporary the Spectator : Sir,—Tho purveyor of mares' nests for the Tories has just found a notable one, which was held up in the columns of the Standard on Monday last as a gross job of the Whigs. As I am the supposed occupant of the nest in question, I hope you will allow me space to show that if the present Government are guilty of no worse jobs than this their hands are clean enough. The Standard announces that a sinecure office ol Reviser of Military Regulations has been created, with a salaryof £l,OOO a year,to which 1 have been appointed. No such office has been created,and of course no such appoint ment made. The present regulations governing the pay and allowances of the Queen's forces are scattered through six volumes, out of which officers, soldiers, and all other per sons interested, have to pick the law as they best can. Many of the earlier of these regulations have been wholly or par tially repealed by later ones, others are very obscure in their wording, in short there is the greatest confusion on a sub ject which above all others should be as simple and as clear as po-sible, as our soldiers aro the persons chiefly interested. The present Secretary of State for 'War, amongst other ne cessary reforms, has resolved on codifying and embodying in the most inte ligible form in one regulation, all the re • gulations, memoranda, and circulars now in force as to pay and allowances. The codification has been begun in the office, and It has seemed desirable to the authorities there that some person outside the office, ignorant of its traditions but familiar with this kind of work, should be employed to revise, and (in conveyancing language) settle, the new re gulation. I happened to be one of several conveyancers who had been employed by the War-office in advising on the titles of lands purchased for fortifications under the Defence Act. The present job' (and a very stiff one it is, though not in the Standards sense) was offered to and ac cepted by me as a mere piece of conveyancing, to be paid for once for all like any other ordinary legal work, and, as above stated, no office has been created at £l,OOO a year, or any other salary. I hope that the army and the public service may be tho gainers by getting shortly one intelli gible regulation, embodying the whole law and practice on this most imprtant subject. Should this result be attained, I shall take it with equanimity if (as the Standard Bugs gests) the House of Commons should strike out of the estimates any pay which the authorities at the War-office may reckon my services worth.-.I am your obedient servant, "T. HuguEs." " P.S.--qt never rains but it pours,' The Telegraph has just announced that I have been appointed to succeed Mr M'Culloch as Controller of the Stationery Department. I fear there is even less foundation for this report than for the other." For whatever is still unsatisfactory in this expla nation Mr. Hughes is certainly not responsible, nor is the present chief of the War-office to blame if, at a cost not worth a thought, he gets a very honest and competent man to make a struggle for the establishment of order where he finds disorder, tbo result of generations of confusion and low disci pline. The War-office is, in fact, a conglomeration of many separate offices, which date their union only from the time of the Crimean War. Th 9 esta blishment, unwieldy from its very constitution, is like the rough mass of clay in which we see only a first rude approach to the harmonious form that same day may be given to it. Mr. Hughes, as far as his temporary help goes, is pretty much in the positieu of the extra horse put on to help the team in getting the coach out of the deep ruts and up the hill. It is easy to say that the coach has its own team already, a team of five, that its leaders aro well fed, that the coach ought never to have stuck in the mud, and that the hill should have been avoided by the roadmaker. The driver on the box, who made neither the ruts nor the hill, is not the man to blame for his knowledge of what is necessary to the proper driving of his stage. No doubt the work that Mr Hughes is to bring into order is that which an offi cer and four civilians have, for years past, been paid some three thousand a year for doing. The result, one may say, ought not to be " the greatest confu sion." And if it be, what are the fruits of compoti. tive examination, if there is not a clerk in the War Office, superior or subordinate, competent to give the gist of a set of office orders in intelligibleEngtish —if it is absolutely necessary to go outside the office for a man with a clear head for understanding what is done inside the office ? Or, if the work be legal, and it is peculiarly the faculty of a lawyer or con veyancer to write plain English, the War Office is said by the Army Estimates to have on its staff, at the cost of another three thousand a year, a solici tor, an assistant solicitor, and four clerks, one of them a conveyancing clerk. All this one may think and one may say; but the fact is that there really was a job to be done, in the most honest sense, and that a stiff one, for which Mr Ilugbee has half a dozen qualifications, including rare ability, keen sense of duty, and a sturdy relish of hard work. TIIE " 6PECTATOB." ON MULLER'S LETTER To Ills PARENTS.—Wo are inclined to think that Muller's only posthumous work, the epietns to his parents, which has bean published this ?reek, will do much to fill up the missing links between the man's character and his act. The letter is in many respects a curious one, and, road with our know ledge of his confession of his crime at the very last moment of life, one that characterises the writer. It is reticent and sly—it is clumsily imagined and, like the rest of Muller's proceedings, rather witless appeal of the man to the pity and sympathy of his parents—and the public—conceived on the plan of abasing himself just so far as to gratify the self esteem of others without giving them any substan tial handle against him; and it is in this respect only a continuation of the practice of his life and the policy ho had pursued throughout of conciliate ing everybody—his fellow-workmen, the passengers on board the Victoria on his way to New York, the newspaper correspondents there, the police, the chaplain, the volunteer di ssen ti ng m i n i s t ers , th e jury, the judge, and all officials of any influence. Nevertheless this confidential letter to his parents ends with just one savage and, as it were, irrepres sible blow, foolishly conceived and badly delivered, but violent and sudden, against the witness whose evidence had led to his detection. " I remain," he says, " your loving son and brother Franz Muller, who was sold as a slave in London by john Mat thew (the cabman) for 2,000 thalers" (the reward offered by the Government and Mr Briggs's family for the detection of the murderer), an abrupt and remarkable close to a flowery epistle of very unreal religious feeling with which he seems to have been attempting to divert his secret and embarrassed thought. Muller was apparently a man of a very profound, but not the commonest kind of vanity—not the sort of vanity which attaches an excessive importance to everything affecting itself, but the sort which divides a man absolutely in two, giving him a blind side which he scarcely ever turns towards his own gaze, and a fancy side in which alone ho.recogniscs himself. This too is generally the amiable kind of vanity, for it is this kind which, anxious to keep up its own dramatic fiction, invests in fine sentiments which tend to support the fiction, and of which it unconsciously hopes to receive an echo back in the good opinion of others. But it is very rare to find any vanity even of this kind strong enough to stand the test to which Muller put it—that of ignoring and shutting out of his own view with a perfectly startling coin posure and tenacity the greatest event of a life, and that a crime of the first order. In almost any other character vanity, if it survived the strain at all, would have connected itself with the crime and come to pique itself thereupon. Not so Muller's. There can scarcely be another case, wo imagine, in which a man ever contrived to separate so com pletely, and so unfortunately for himself his crime, and its gains—to accept the latter so composedly and with so little uneasiness or painful association of any kind—and to put the former at a distance from him as if, having answered its purpose, it was a part of him no longer. Every account agrees that on the day after the murder Muller was the same sober,composed,quiet kind of conciliatory per son ho had always been, without a trace of agitation. The day alter that he wrote his name in the new hat, and wore the watch, and was showing his friends his pretended purchases with evident pride and unconcern. When he got on board the Victoria, his strongest characteristic, that disposition to con ciliate everybody and leave a sort of sentimental picture of himself in their minds—which was per haps to him the only true picture—induced him to write from the Downs that flowery farewell to his former friends which helped so materially to track him to New York. After his apprehension he sedulously and successfully endeavoured—not to clear himself, for he would not sufficiently acknow ledge to himself Muller the murderer to make any serious effort in that direction—but to imbue every one he came across with his own more sentimental view of himself. He was gentle to the police, re. spectful to the gaol authorities, confidential to the cbaplaine, trustful to the jury, complimentary to the Court, penitent and affectionate to his parents, and ferocious only (by starts) to Mathews. Even his final confession of the crime, delayed to the very last moment, almost sounds to our cars like a sort of concession made to the eternal tribunal under the eole jurisdiction of which he was just passing, of its right to condemn, in the hope that in return he should get his own estimate of himself more or less admitted in extenuation of the guilt. The man's sentimental idea of himself was so widely severed from the unpleasant filets of the murder and robbery, that we doubt if the real view of himself as a criminal ever came vividly under his notice. He confesses imaginary, or, if not imaginary, still trivial faults, and magnifies them into crimes in order to blend a sort of candour and humility with the pathos of his position, and yet at the same time to satisfy his own feelings by admitting a sort of abstract criminality. He says to his parents 1 now plainly comprehend the sentence which stands written in the Bible—that whosoever does not honour his father and mother will be followed by an early death; but I only see it now when it is too late. I hope, nevertheless, that you who were so dear to me will not discard me if the world repulse me. ' For hope ushers us into life, floats around the happy boy, animates youth with its magic light, and will not be buried with the grey headed man, for if he closes his weary career at the grave, yet at the grave he plants hope;' and on this account I hope that you will forgive me with all your hearts." Is all this, with its flowery quotation, pure hypocrisy, intended to react upon his judges in England—or is it the view of himself which be himself enter tained on the whole P We are disposed to think the latter. Had it been otherwise we could scareely conceive of Muller viewing the plundered hat and watch of his victim with guilty dread, but rather looking upon them as filling up naturally the lamentable voids in his personal effects. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON QUACK DOCTORS.—WO are not so sanguine as to suppose that the conviction of the scoundrel Wray, alias Henery, and his associate will put an end to a trade which is too lucrative to be stopped by a single accident like this. Its existence is due to our very superfine morality, and to an abuse of an excellent principle, We are a great deal too moral and refined to believe that there is such a crime as that of which Henery was convicted, or we affect not to know the details of such cases. We, pretend, too, to think that some great principle would be violated, that some interference with some inalien able privilege of the British subject to ruin himself in his own way would be committed, were we to put this sort of thing down with a high hand. It is nothing, in another aspect of our public squeamishness, that the blood and life of the population should be contaminated by infection which it is within the power of a medical police to check; because, if we were to regulate the evil, we should acknowledge it, and, acknowledging it, we should legalize it. It is a very difficult thing to frame a law which shall prevent the rob beries committed by quack doctors, because we may per haps infringe the liberty of the subject; we may be reviving the obsolete privileges of a profession; we may be doing ten thousand things, and running ten thousand risks, which, however, if every one of them took place, would not equal the evil to society of one case such as that of Captain Clarke. This sort of nonsense was freely talked when it was proposed to deal with the Holywell-street nuisance, as it is still talked when any call is made for cleansing the thoroughfares of London of its pollutions, social, moral, or material. But the thing can bo done. It is a fact that Magna Chaste and the Bill of Rights, Habeas Corpus and the Book of Common Prayer, the Englishman's Castle and all its rights, privileges, and immunities, still survive, though we have pessed Lord Campbell's Act, and are try ing some little interference with the sacred rights of prosti tutes at Portsmouth and Aldershot. It is quite worth Sir George Grey's while—if ho over indulges in such a diffie cult operation as thinking—to think whether at least an at tempt to put down the tribe of Henery . would provoke a rebellion. No doubt" the subject is beset with difficulties" —and as our great and good Home Secretary showed,when he was asked whether it was possible so to arrange a rail way train that communication should exist between pas sengers and the guard, wo shall be assured that the Home office has:had its attention called to an evil for which it cannot at present furnish a remedy. But this is just the pinch of tho case, 'We keep up the Home-office, with its clerks, its staff of legal gentlemen, and its Corinthian capital, precisely for this purpose of dealing with difficult cases, and helping us when we cannot help ourselves. Or must we resign ourselves to a paternal despotism and a foreign police? It is past a doubt that, in every city on the Continent, a domiciliary visit, prompt and paternal, would in twenty-four hours clean out every one of the scientific museums which disgrace our most public streets, and would prevent those filthy advertisements with which, much to their disgrace, kit least one-half of the daily news papers pollute their columns and public morality at the same time. This remedy is within our power. The Eng lish newspaper press is conducted generally by honourable men. But every newspaper proprietor who permits the in sertion of the advertisements of the Henerys of the day is an accomplice in their crime, The only means of success open to these gangs of robbers is the publicity which they gain by newspaper advertisements. And when we come to reckon the enormous cost of these advertisements, daily re peated and published iu so many papers, all of which must be taken off the profits of the infamous trade, it is no matter of surprise to be assured that there are cases, and not a few, in which the extortions of these villains are to be reckoned by thousands of pounds. It may be quite true that even the suppression of advertisements in newspapers would not altogether stop the evil. It is still open to quacks to send advertisements, as they now do their "sealed books," by post and on speculation, to those classes from whom dupes are most easily gathered, But it is quite possible to make every person who gives an addrase, either in a book, or a placard, or an advertisement offensive to public morals, re sponsible for the contents of such announcement. And if it bo said that such a stringent law would be open to abuse, that it would be difficult to distinguish between scientific and medical works and their filthy counterfeits, the answer is that all these imaginary evils were conjured up in refe rence to Lord Campbell's Act. But they have not happened, and if they did happen, the risk of encountering them is as nothing compared with the amount of wrong, robbery, misery, and contamination which the present state of things permits, and "therefore legalises," But who is to frame the law P Who is to say what is legitimate medical prat • Lice P And what is to prevent regular professional men engaging in very irregular and unprofessional prac tice ? This is mixing up two questions. First, it is quite possible, even as the law stands, to punish such practitioners as Henery, who is, we have heard, a watch maker. But further, as regards wlsat is medical practice and what is a sordid abuse of it, we deny that it is impos sible to draw the lino. If the present medical registration act is not stringent enough, lot its powers be increased. The duty of working it ought not to be left to the volunteer, or perhaps the rival, energy of private medical men, or a medical society. If there were an inspector of medical licenses, armed with authority to shut up the shops of these health institutions, half the trade would be annihilated in a single thorning. THE "LONDON REVIEW" ON THE DEAD AND GONE " MORNING CHRONICLE."—Tho case of Sergeant Glover ought to be a warning to all newspaper editors who feel in clined to dally with foreign monarchs. Put not your trust in princes, nor in dukes neither, is an epitaph which de serves to be engraved upon the tomb of the .Dlorning Chro• nick. Mr Sergeant Glover made but a sorry show last Saturday before the Lord Chief Justice and a Westminster special jury. Early in the case his counsel, owing to the faultiness of the Sergeant's instructions, managed to plunge himself into a morass, out of which he never emerged. With inconceivable folly, Sergeant Glover had omitted from Sergeant Parry's copy an awkward passage in a letter which was to be found in the original at length, and which com pletely exculpated the French Government from all liability up to the date of May, 1857. It seems odd that a literary man who professes to be himself a lawyer should have taken the trouble to got up an expensive case, only to damn it the moment it came into court by so extravagant a piece of carelessness. The certainty of the exposure which such a proceeding must draw down is perhaps the best proof that Sergeant Glover's omission—strange as it may seem—was only grossly negligent. No man in his senses, however in differently honest, would be so rash as to mutilate a docu ment the while of which must, of necessity, be in the hands of the opposite attorney. But sincere as may be such stu pidity, the (Afoot produced upon the minds of a jury is as damaging, under such circumstances, as if fraud and chicanery had lain beneath. It takes a great deal of ability on the part of an advocate, and much intrinsic virtue in a case, to retrieve the fatal slip. A memory which can forget so strange a dissimi larity between the draught of an epistle and the epistle itself, as actually sent, is scarcely trustworthy enough to win, without much difficulty, the confidence of impartial observers. Better causes before now have been destroyed by less mistakes. Before Mr. Sergeant Glover went into the box his lawsuit was virtually at an end, and in consent ing to terminate the cause by an amicable arrangement. his counsel made the best of a very hopeless and desperate affair. The question whether or no the French Government was willing to tamper with the virtue of an English newspaper is not so easily dismissed. Mr Bovill intimated that down to 1860 Sergeant Glover went on acknowledging that he had no legal claims upon the Emperor or the Duke de Per eigny. Even if the ex pal* assertion of an advocate be taken as strictly proved, it still is possible that such acknow ledgments may have been extorted from Sergeant Glover by the French executive as an ostentatious preliminary to a promised settlement. Nothing would be more simple or more common than such a plan. The unfortunate Sergeant would, of course, eagerly sign anything in hopes of bring ing his illustrious debtors to account ; little calculating on the ultimate effect of any such admissions. 'When all is said that can be said against him, it still is clear that Ser geant Glover was allowed by the French executive to sell himself. He may have sold himself for nothing ; but sell himself he did ; and the reluctance of those who bought him to pay more than they are legally compelled, is far from proving that no moral sale took place. It is true that ono ought not to come to a strong conclusion ono way or another upon a fragment of the plaintiff's evidence or from his coune eel's opening speech. But the French Government, through Mr Bovill, supplied a piece of proof that is enough for our purpose. They had at least received and kept Sergeant Glovei's communications. Tho original paper, of which Mr Sergeant Parry possessed but a curtailed copy, was produced from Paris ; and after its production there can be little doubt but that the Duke de Persigny or his agents had been in treaty with the proprietors of the Morning Chronicle. Indeed the whole history of the Morning Chronicle in its later years renders such proof superfluous, There is no mis taking the dress of the literary courtezan, That its virtue had become marketable in January, 1857, and marketable to a French bidder was always obvious. Who the bidder must have been may be a matter of judicial doubt, but in the eyes of men of sense it is a matter of no doubt at all, The Illorni4 Chronicle has never had any hesitation in swear•• ing to the identity of its seducer, and popular as is the Im perial dynasty of France, those are perhaps not many opu• lent Frenchmen, totally unconnected with the Tuileries, who would send large sums of money in converting a second-rate English journal to the cause of the Second Em pire. The a priori evidence, accordingly, is all upon one side, It is most improbable that the Morning Chronicle, . like an excellent lady whose name has recently been dragged into the Divorce Court, should have gone en o a r six long years under an erroneous idea that its virtue be been assailed. If Sergeant Gl o ver is to be believed 011?$ —and we really see no reason why he should not—bellat o more than one interview with the Duke de Per si g nP. settle terms of service. The Duke on these occasions not. nated M. St Andre to act for him in the capacity of ag e % Nor was the Duke de Persigny the only Minister who We` an interest in Sergeant Glover's affairs. hi. Billault reo°6s nised, if not his claims, at all events his labours, an d a r i a to assist him towards an important concession from the " - : ministration of the day. Lastly, Sergeant Glover effi rll 7 that he saw and spoke to a still greater personage Mal 1857. He had, he says, the honour of an interview with the Monarch who directs the destinies of France. The EroP er° : —so Sergeant Glover swears—received him with co r n and kindness, He thanked the Sergeant for the mode 51/A manner in which the Morning Chr o nicle had acted, 0111't asked what he could do for him in return. The Sergeeu —who seems to have no scruples in avowing thet Morning Chronicle's favours were venal—replied prorePY " a telegraphic concession." If all this is true th e Yers ; ing Chronicle may not have disposed of itself for wench °, at least it is difficult to maintain that it did not dispose o; itself for expectations. The debt was allowed to beat s , debt of honour, instead of a debt recoverable at law. difference is an important one, as the French Governin" has shown. In spite of the generous intentions of tb 6 Emperor and M. Billault, Sergeant Glover has got uothieog in the end, and Sergeant Glover is less fortunate than 110 French compeers. The Constitutionnel and the Pease °°., themselves as freely, but they take care to make better IND; gains. We cannot, however, regret that the proprietore ° the Morning Chronicle have not been as prosperou s or 0 munificently rewarded. That venality should go " 8 ill ; stance unsalaried is the best guarantee that we shell have any more Sergeant Glovers. Hereafter, few articles will probably be written at the French em baseit and Imperialism will content itself with what it can secure in the groat Parisian market. One singular item in Sec geant Glover's claim will perhaps be sufficient to couvn t foreigners that a traffic in the honour of journalists ie likely to succeed in England. Among other partieubo4 Sergeant Glover claimed to recover damages " for the 1 % 66 sustained in the depreciated value of the newspePe r6 ; question" by reason of their French proclivities. 82011 , 0 - , - item is the homage which venality pays to virtue. h,": Imperial patronage for which the Morning Chronicle di 6 , much was a weight greater than it could carry. The editeris' leadia vessel sank under the load. Too late Sergeant Glover dig; covered that a journal, if it desires a position, must be eb°/ suspicion and reproach. An intrigue is fatal to its rep tion, and to its circulation too. The honour of a vi° l33 _,' of a member of Parliament, and of a newspaper are thi7 j things that will not bear blackening. In these col:30 30 : days it is well to have this truth flaunted before men's eye; More than one Parliamentary celebrity like the Nors'" Chronicle has brought contempt upon himself by endeavour; ing to serve two countries, and there are several naraeetfb6r will go down to posterity aide by side with that of Sergeant Glover. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH—SATURDAY. There was a moderate show of wheat at market to'l and the trade was marked with the saute inactivity ii°,o" late—prices for all good qualities being the same BB week. There was a good show of barley, and late P" were fully supported. 3 81 White wheat. 44s to 45s I Red wheat 36s t ° 3 4! Malting 4 (0 Malting barley ...3ls to 33s I Chevalier barley 3 ' 5 26 1 Distilling do . 27s to 28s I Oats. 24 s Flour, 26s Od to 28s Od per sack from the miller' NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. led 9 j The quantity of wheat on offer to-day was rather The demand was moderato at previous rates. Oats 10 beans a healthy sale, and prices were same as last 111 —White wheat, from 42s to 50s ; red wheat, :38s O n o, Barley—malting, 32s to 358 ; grindinW 278 to 28s. old, at 25s to 30s Od ; I new, 22s to 255. - Beans sold to to 43s per qr. ; new, 37s to 395. - Flour, fine, 298 to 32s ; super, 35s to 37s per 20 stone' GRANTHAM - SATURD A. Y , 2 6 0 1.; Old white wheat, 42s to 458; red, 49s to 43s per, n umrt new white, 40s to 43s ; red, 38s to 41s. Malting P,7:4 6 t) 328 to 35s per qr ; grinding,' 28s to 308; oats, Old, 325; new, 208 to23s; beans, 36s to 445; peas, 31s to 348° LEICE STER—SAT uRDAY. , 3 6 Old white wheat, 40s to 425; red, 38s to 42s Pe y ' le f stone. New white, 40s to 42s per 36 stone. Malting ba' s o: new, 30s to 33s per qr.; grinding, 28s to 30s ; 01d 26s to 28s ; new oats, 22s to 25s per 24 stone. 13 0 , old, 8s to 42s per 38 stone ; flour, 313 to 39s per 20 otoo YORK—SATURDAY. e ° We had a better supply of wheat ou offer from the gOviies. this morning and a very fiat trade doing, about late P r Barley a fair show and steady . ernand. Oats scarce. : Wheat, red .3Bs to 40s Oats.... lB5 t 4 2 ' ' 40 , to ~, White do .40s to 45s Beans Bt airy .27s to 32s Leas --s to of Malt, 56s to 60s per qr. ; rye, 30s per qr ; flou r ' to 32s per sack. I—FRIDAY. A A small quantity DUß of wheat on offer, which met with il „ O ft tber slow sale, an d t ransac ti ons h ave b een at fully le I qr under previous rates. do s. d. 1 0 0 `,: 0 s. d. s. d. I —0 to 0 —oto to 0 Wheat, white.. 22 0 to 23 6 Oatmeal ...- Do., led .. '2O oto2l 6 Beans.. - 0 . Do., now .... oto 0 Bere Barley Oats , i 6 e Do., black lO oto 11 0 Indian corn .. 27 o to '' Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS;DUB. , 1 9 ' Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. ...... IN - 'l3, via Marseilles: pee. 5. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. De,, c ' 29 , Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena veL''' , China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton.MN' li, __ via Marseilles Dee' Falkland Islands _____ ... • Gibraltar, via Southampton .. Deo' ?„ India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton De c. $ --. via Marseilles D e '' 1/‘ India (Bombay), via Southampton Deo' 6. Dee. via Marseilles ........ 5. Dec. P0rtuga1.......... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton ...... 6. via Marseilles ........ 7. De e ' Newfoundland Oporto -,,,,n U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.. • . -I'' 1 by U.S. racket..• • by Canadian packet. D° ° ; 1 1, W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerife ...... D ec ' 1 4 ' West Indies and Pacific Bahamas (via New Yurk) ' Bermuda (ditto) .... Cuba and Mexico . . ........ il pee. ec 0 . 1 :19 . : . .Pec- THE COLOSSAL STATUE OF HERCULES AT 11 :: ‘ , does not, it seems, progress very rapidly t3warm-iloo restoration. It is at present reclining on a green t o 0 0 large room, where the process of drying it goes 0 xi c ,..4 metal being saturated with damp in consequence o f bil ', l - 11' been so many ages in the water. A pan of charco al sertod into the hero's head every morning, and coolvitiott cater a genial warmth to the whole body. The terfOrty which the statue is to become the property of the O ' ° 1 diel ment are not yet arranged. The fortunate discoverer 1/J;:0 to have a good sum down, besides an annuity, and the G he of Marquis. The Art Commissioners have value' statue at 45,000 scudi (nearly £16,000.) e 'e o MULLER'S CONFESSION.—The Church - Lle i l l t / remarks on Muller's acknowledgment of his 80".000 " Only Protestantism could have produced a religl.o4 monster who dies in firm hope of his own salvatiolit professedly at peace with God and man, and yet takes W i t,jo ho believes to bo the sacrament' in corroboration old daring perjury, carries a lie with him to the vet,* 0e,,k1.-61: and dreams that he can repair his contumacious w w- dt a noes by throe words uttered almost half in and hal f not' the next world I His own remark that man cal lo°. h ielst give sins,' reveals the subtle influence of a system with all its good intentions, destroys the souls tile ,: 10 Divine Lord has sent graci o u s gifts of healing u l3°- earth to save." Births. A CPr FARM"ER.—On the 2d inst , at 10, Lansdown - r o haul, Mrs. Henry Farmer, of a son. , n il oon GIRDLESTONE.—On the 2d inst, at Brent-britik o. Hendon, the wife of Nelson " GirdleStOne, -DB° daughter. Avillei of MELVILLE.—On the Ist inst., Mrs. Alexander 34, Fitzroy-square, Fitzroy-square, of a daughter. Marriages. ,„; pbe CHARTERIS—KErpm—On the 30th ult. , at 14—dese" Church, the Hon. Frederick Wm. Charteris. rsti R.N., youngest son of the Earl of Weraysa 1511 4 0 „r1 t' S to the Lady Louisa liePP el * d aug hter of the .1-- Countess ot Albemarle. ow WEBSTER—ALCOCK.— On tho Ist ins t., a t Saiet,l:o4l4 Fs h Dublin, Robert Charl e s W e b s t e r, q " " of Ga k e— piia ° " ltuabon, North Wale s , t o Do ro thea ' LY nn AIC of Major Alcock, of Richmond House, Waterteill' p011;:ci Deaths. BEVERIDGE.—On the 2dinst.,atPriory 1 4 ° 115e ' aeldt ' PI line, N. 8,, Erskine Beveridge, Esq., of nruce -61. ,ull, C. BINGHAM —On the 2d inst., at Tranby, near P. ch ou Bingham, At age 73. NIARSLAND. d Wood Bank, Cheshire, Henrygi3ll/00 Esq., aged 64. PAENELL —On the 30th nil" a t Nowark.on-Ttellt' e Elizabeth Parnell, aged 93. s gv ' coor ROWCLIFFE.—On the 3d inst., at Cam den-to Ike Rowoliffe, Esq., aged 57, 13„ 10 TARLETON.— On the 30th ult at Heath - gre e-f ham, W. Tarleton, Esq., F..11.C.5., aged 51. Lon of don: Printed and Frtbiished by IVILLIA.,,, 1 0 ' 4 , f # No. 11 Print 2. Strand, Prinr, at 'I LIE SW ( ° : o 4 'ec lo- Strand, in The Precinct of the Sivoy. in 1a....' laliti%liettex.—itonday, December 5, 190.